The new century

The Colored American

Washington, D.C. · November 24, 1900

The front page announcing the National Negro Business League — “the first organization of its kind in America” — ringed with portraits of its founding members. Booker T. Washington convened it in Boston that August. This is what a Black business network looked like 126 years ago.

Published

Washington, D.C.

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Not recorded

This issue

November 24, 1900

Catalog no.

sn83027091

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